Double standard?

To the Editor:

As a 25-year veteran of the chemical dependency treatment field, I found it ironic that the Northwest Herald’s front-page article on Independence Day was about Hebron Village President John G. Jacobson getting his independence to continue in office.

If a younger person was arrested with 3 grams of crack cocaine in his or her car, they likely would not have been able to plead out of a felony charge because the law would be teaching them a lesson. Judge Gordon Graham essentially let Jacobson off with a slap on the wrist by accepting a plea down to a misdemeanor.

A convicted younger person would have had to report for probation and probably be referred to drug treatment.

Interestingly, neither Jacobson nor his attorney would comment. They were probably ashamed.